HomeMy WebLinkAbout1973 08-16 Maplewood Council adopts guide plan REVIEW ■
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by Scott Carlson shopping center. "We're saying now that
should
After thre;ears in the making and being Plan,"the Tsk G eavuea argued. work around our
adopted by the Planning Commission, the
Maplewood Master Guide Plan was But Wiegert and colleague Donald
adopted by the village council 4-1 last Olmstead said the Plan allows for a
Thursday night. change procedure. "In the end I don't
th
The council's approval came after nearly howly we design ed the roads differencenk it makes a bitf" Olmstead
a two hour verbal joust with Citizens said in calling for the reconciliation with
Against Residential Exploitation (CARE) the CARE group.
concerning the designation of three roads
in the Maplewood Heights area. Olmstead had urged action on the Plan
because"I think we've been sitting on the
Councilman Donald Wiegert proposed to Plan without any basis for sitting on it."
show Beam, Lydia and Woodlyn ayes. as
connectors to White Bear ave. in keeping He added, "It would be a travesty not to
with an earlier council resolution of in- adopt the Plan when the Planning
tent. Commission has."
But Wiegert backed down on his in- Wiegert explained to Greavu and CARE,"
sistence to include the change and agreed There is no end in waiting for adopting the
with the other councilmen to leave the Plan and the Planning Commission has
roads unconnected as now shown in the complained it feels awkward in operating
Planning Commission's version. He said, without the Plan."
however, that the land use plan for the
area does not have a functional street Numerous study sessions had been held
plan. by the council to discuss the Plan since it
was okayed returned by
CARE chairman Jim St.Onge, 2126 Beam Metropolitan Counccil since March butthe no
ave., said any change of the road convient meeting date for its adoption
designation should await CARE could ever be worked out, Wiegert said in
proposals, feasibility reports and Nor- response to queries about the political
theast Task Force recommendations. timing on the proposed plan adoption
CARE had particular interest in defeating
before ectionshe village mayoral and council
the proposed road designation changes
because it has been fighting the council's Manager Mike Miller, Public Works
May 17 resolution of intent. It believes if Director Bobby D. Collier and Planning
the roads are connected traffic next year Commission Chairman Lyman Coombs
all offered reasons for adopting the Plan.
from the nearby $30 million Maplewood
Mall shopping center will filter onto the
roads and ruin their residential neigh "I think the Task Force would be less
borhood. likely to alter land uses if the Plan was
adopted," Collier said in response to a
John Greavu, a Maplewood council Greavu question.
representative to the Northeast Task
Miller said, "A feasibility study would
Force Study, dissented on the Plan
adoption and called the council's action have to be put through. "The Plan doesn't
"premature". .`V put the roads through." \t/
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